Tyrphanax

Frink. Get out of my closet. You will never find the secret as to my phenomenal singing voice in there.

And why does C3PX's mom know you're in my closet? Do I know C3PX's mom? That's what she said? wat?

Yeah, also very much a factor in inter-atmosphere flights/dogfights.

I am both excited and apprehensive about this.

I: I really like Boba Fett, and would love to see him kick more ass.

II: They only seem to make the character worse as they do more with him.

greenpenguino said:

Anchorhead said:

Tyrphanax said:

Palpatine preferred quantity over quality (which is why TIE fighters don't have shields as it was cheaper to just replace a TIE than to keep one running apparently).

That's something I find very interesting about the EU in general - the different ideas people have for things.  It's back to the imagination part of the equation.  Plus you can take or leave whatever you want.  I haven't seen the last two films, so I don't know where that shield explanation comes from (film or EU novel).

In Death Star, the TIEs don't have shield generators, hyper-drives, or emergency life support systems because those all add unnecessary weight to the craft.

Wait. What??

The empire is worried about the tie fighters having unnecessary weight.... In space?????

It's space where sound travels, so maybe weight works too. =P

This brings about the question of where you have heard my voice, Dr. Frink.

I thought it was funny!

TV's Frink said:

Me!

I sing the shit out of songs in my car.

Hell yeah, man. Me too.

Yeah, all three of those explanations has been given at some point in the EU. Never in any movies, though.

I guess it was a way to explain why it only took one shot to down a TIE and a few to take out an X-wing, since Wedge and Luke both get shot and don't die and because they're mentioned as having them. Not that it's a terribly important distinction to make, but it adds a little colour I suppose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KpNzalFKPo

This one!

*turns off the very large, very loud fan everyone was shouting over*

There. Resume inside voices.

I'm fixing to move to Phoenix* to start two years of university for my BS after graduating with honours from junior college after coming from an "unschooled" background.

That's an entire high school education and half a college education condensed into four years. Pretty pleased with myself.

Both my lists are empty. That's okay by me.

I have all three of the Indiana Jones movies in a set. The 2004 OT set. The first Harry Potter that someone left here once. And The Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and The Meaning of Life (I think). That's it.

Clone DNA degrades fairly rapidly due to the accelerated aging process, so it makes cloning from a clone less effective as that clone will experience DNA degradation exponentially faster. Even unaltered Boba had to deal with genetic degradation.

Also, after doing some research, it seems that I was wrong about  the reason the Fett clones were phased out (or at least my knowledge on the subject was outdated), and that it had less to do with the loss of Jango Fett and more to do with the Kamino uprising and Palpatine losing faith in an army made up of only one man, feeling that an army made up of more than one donor would be less susceptible to being turned against him again.

The reason a lot of stormtroopers can't hit anything is because billions of them were produced using the Spaarti method (which Palpatine preferred). Due to the Spaarti cloning process, which condensed the growing time down to one year, it left only a few months for training, resulting in much less intelligent and capable clones, but with the ability to very quickly replace losses. And as we all know, Palpatine preferred quantity over quality (which is why TIE fighters don't have shields as it was cheaper to just replace a TIE than to keep one running apparently).

Also, the 501st didn't accept other clones or recruits, so they were still pure Fett.

^Caret

TwoOfFour needs his own subforum for internet fights.

CP3S said:

twooffour said:

I'm an Asian, I don't know what an inch is!

A really, really, really short Asian?

In his pants.

I'd like to see Del! D=

Hey everybody! Old Man Frink hand-types all his code! What a rube! Ha ha ha!

lol, that always makes me laugh. Silly bear.

Donkey Kong!

Fookin' prawns.

Jurassic Park (annual re-read)

You're running on auxiliary power, god damn it!

Can't choose just one.